Miss Wildcat celebrates beauty, humanitarianism

The 2018 Miss Wildcat Pageant was held July 16 at the Heydel Fine Arts Center at Cumberland University.

It’s an annual fundraising pageant for the Wilson County Gardeners’ Guild community projects and helps buy crowns, trophies and sashes for Celebrating Beauty special needs pageant during the Wilson County Fair. This year, the contestants donated more than 3,500 food items to the Wilson County Community Help Center.

In addition to the pageant queens, a humanitarian queen was crowned in each age category for the most food items collected.

One of the Miss Wildcat judges, USA National Miss Missouri Paige Seidel delivered the more than 3,500 items collected at the pageant to the Wilson County Community Help Center. Director Ben Spicer accepted the donations.